A recent ParticipACTION report shows that fewer kids in Canada are getting out and staying active.

The report, entitled Rallying for Resilience, focuses on the physical activity levels of children aged 5 to 17, and based on 14 indicators, the report gives Canadian children a D+ grade.

Only 39 per cent of kids in that age group get the recommended 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per day.

T.A. Loeffler, who has made it her life mission to give people the tools and information they need to get out and stay active, says it all starts at an early age.

“My belief is we’ve got to start them young,” says Loeffler, who remarked on how she enjoyed the weekend on the pump track with her five-year-old granddaughter. “We bought her her first push bike when she was one, and she’s already a marvelous biker.”

Loeffler says she’d like to see more outdoor facilities catering to older children and teens, like those in Scandinavia “that was built specifically for teenagers—with teenage-size things for them to play on as a way to entice them off those screens. ”